THE Masayuki Paradise

 Here is the third part of Masayuki Yamamoto's biography. The section where he got a career that stuck him for 35 years (as of this writing). Yamamoto's anime music work went well until the time Itadakiman  was about to air. As mentioned in the previous part of the biography , the show went through changes with one of them being some musician scheduling conflict or something similar. Yamamoto was also given no character choice for him to voice. He was very disappointed with so little task to make music on that he eventually left production. Itadakiman also went through a timeslot change and failed to impress the audience -- both from the concept and the late evening schedule -- that Tatsunoko cut the episodes from the planned 26 to just 20, and ceased the Time Bokan franchise for a while. Meanwhile in MIC, after Galactic Whirlwind   Sasuraiger concluded, their shows didn't perform well through both quality and its toy sponsors. Chou Kosoku Galvion  suffered the simi...

 This is the second part of the biography, where this will focus on his anison career before finding himself into the popular music side. Masayuki Yamamoto found some moderate success with credits as a songwriter and composer for various kayokyoku and comic song artists, as well as his take on contemporary folk music with the release of his Sayonara La-la-la  single. However, there was something missing from his path that he still has yet to take part in: creating theme songs for the entertainment. In 1975, the then-president of Warner-Pioneer sought for a new theme song for a then-upcoming Tatsunoko Production anime work. At that time, Tatsunoko struggled hard to keep its profits going as some recent works were underperforming with TV ratings, like Shinzou Ningen Casshan ,  Uchuu no Kishi Tekkaman and Hurricane Polymar  (Tentoumushi no Uta went well and lasted over 100 episodes). Yamamoto was very interested in making theme songs for an anime, as it was on his bucke...

 I wouldn't start this site without explaining this biography. I'll cover the story of his troubled and challenging past and how he started his passion in making music. This shouldn't sound too personal and I need to revise it by understanding and translating what happened during that time. For the first part of his biography, this post will cover his early days before his music career. Masayuki Yamamoto  was born in Anjo, in Aichi Prefecture on July 11, 1951 , a Wednesday. His parents were Toshinobu [d. 1990] and Fuki [d. 11-02-2002]. His father used to work at the Kansai Electric Power Company or KEPCO. A skyline view of Anjo, where Masa-kun was born and raised in Between the age of around 4 to 6, his mother would take him to a Toei-themed jidaigeki once a week, where he would start his interest in music. In kindergarten class, he took piano lessons from a local teacher by the name of Kiyono Suzuki . He continued piano lessons until he eventually gave up in elementary and...